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So I Married an Alien (Mail-Order Alien Grooms)

by Lyonne Riley (Goodreads Author)

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Thou Shalt Not Spill: Stalked by the Succubus

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Tending Clay, Unearthing Stars: Poems

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Grow in the Dark: Longest Nightmare of the Year by Adeline Alchemy

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This book is for anyone whose first instinct is to run towards the terrifying monster. May you always have the weirdest, slimiest, wettest dreams <3

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“But just as surely as life connected everything, so did death. It was that endless, fast-running river. She'd dipped her fingers into its current, held the eddy of its power in her hand. She was the Queen of Mourning, and in its depths, she would never drown.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Crooked Kingdom

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“She was being vague, but she wasn't yet ready to speak the dream that had ignited in her heart - a crew of her own, a ship under her command, a crusade. It felt like something that was meant to be kept secret, a new seed that might grow to something extraordinary if it wasn't forced to bloom too soon.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Six of Crows

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“It didn't matter. The distance, the danger would be transformed upon the wire, and she would be transformed too. On the high wire, she was beholden to no one, a creature without past or present, suspended between earth and sky.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Crooked Kingdom

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